Scarce capacity under the UK-India air services agreement.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 March 2005-UK Government: Scarce capacity under the UK-India air services agreement(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14032005 The Secretary of State for Transport, Alistair Darling, today announced his decision on appeals by BA, bmi and Virgin Atlantic against the decision by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) concerning the allocation of scarce capacity on air routes from the UK to India.

Mr Darling has upheld the appeal by BA insofar as he considers that the CAA should not have placed restrictive conditions on the frequencies available to BA before the Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and India was signed last year without giving BA the opportunity to say why it should be allowed to retain flexibility over those...